It is a form of mental composting, which involves separating out unnecessary areas of knowledge, interests and curiosities, and chucking them into the slop-bucket of oblivion.
In a nod to an ongoing dispute among teachers, Ofsted's consultation document notes that "a divisive debate has emerged in some quarters that creates an unnecessary opposition between knowledge and skills" and concludes that the two are "closely interconnected".
[n8] Likewise, if an unquestionably honest citizen comes forward with a report of criminal activity -- which, if fabricated, would subject him to criminal liability -- we have found [p234] rigorous scrutiny of the basis of his knowledge unnecessary.
It is also argued that Japanese physicians might consider such knowledge unnecessary because of Japanese exceptionalism, which is deeply pervasive whether they realize it or not.
It needs to be impressed that we should not always re-educate or supply an abundance of often unnecessary dental health knowledge.
Research evidence about decision errors of omission, from diagnostic errors to the underutilization of medications, suggests that these errors may be due, in part, to unnecessary delays in knowledge translation and result in needless human suffering [ 1, 2].
To continually improve design quality and efficiency, companies must consider how to speed design processes, minimise human-errors, avoid unnecessary iterations, and sustain knowledge embedded in the design process.
If the services are, to the doctor's knowledge, medically unnecessary, the claim is false.
In fact, the only thing you get for having spent a year on obtaining this unnecessary information is the knowledge, in the hour of your death, that you wasted a substantial portion of your life and will now die alone and unremarked upon.
